Sydney-based private construction company St Hilliers, which has carried out a range of defence related work over several years in Western Australia, has entered voluntary administration.
St Hilliers has called in voluntary administrators to seven subsidiaries, pausing work at 21 active sites across the company.
WLP Restructuring partners Glenn Livingstone and Alan Walker have been engaged to assess the company’s financial position.
A total of 22 staff have been made redundant, with a further 80 staff on the companies’ books.
"The administrators are working closely with all stakeholders and staff in order to recommence project works at the earliest opportunity," Mr Livingstone said.
"We are hopeful this can occur in the coming days and that the employment of as many people as possible is preserved."
The phone line at the builder’s Subiaco office currently refers callers back to the administrator.
The company lists refurbishment work at HMAS Stirling among its current WA projects, and built the City of Swan’s Ellenbrook Youth Centre in 2022.
It has a strong history of work in defence in the state, including infrastructure and water works at RAAF Pearce, and road refurbishments in Swanbourne.
The entities under administration are all part of St Hilliers’ construction division. Its property development and investment divisions are understood to be unaffected.
St Hilliers has been operating for more than three decades. Its construction arm was placed in administration once before, in 2012.
A first meeting of creditors will be held on or before February 14.
